Absolute Duo (アブソリュート・デュオ Abusoryūto Dyuo) is the animated version of the light novel. The anime was announced at the MF Bunko Summer School Festival 2014 on July 20, 2014.
The series is directed by Atsushi Nakayama, written by Takamitsu Kōno and the music's played by Atsushi Hirasawa. The winter anime is being released by Media Factory's 8-Bit studio. The release date of the first episode was on January 4, 2015, and ran until March 22, 2015.
Plot
Absolute Duo follows the viewpoint character, Tor enrolls in Koryo Academy, a high school where its students battle each other with weapons known as Blaze (焔牙/ブレイズ Bureizu?) as training to become future peacekeepers. The students must pass a battle during the qualification ceremony of the freshmen day in order to be enrolled in the academy. Although most students manifest their Blazes as melee weapons, Tor's ability manifests as a shield, making him an Irregular (イレギュラー iregyurā?). The school uses a special Duo system in which students are assigned partners. Tor is paired with Julie Sigtuna, a silver-haired beauty from Scandinavia, and must share a room with her.[1] Both Julie and Tor is revealed to be an avenger, with Julie herself is an El-Awaken and possesses unlimited power. They both also have tragic past because their loved ones, Tor's Sister and Julie's father is killed by an enemy. Tor previously get along too with Imari Nagakura who failed the qualification and is enrolled into the Koryo branch academy on a vacation island and later paired with Miwa to form duo.
Tor also later get along with other known classmates such as Tomoe Tachibana, Miyabi Hotaka, Aoi Torasaki and Tatu who also passes the qualification ceremony as well, principal Sakuya Tsukumo and an energetic teacher, Rito Tsukimi. One day, a blonde haired beauty named Lilith Bristol heard of Tor's ability and so, transfer from the English Branch Academy in order to pair up with Tor to form duo without attend classes and declares love with Tor but is later rejected. Lilith becomes angry and one day she trespasses a training lesson and challenge the students there. Nevertheless, Lilith still not give up and try to win Tor's heart. Tor spends his school life with all his classmates and teachers, such as attending lessons, having tea with Lilith and strolling out in shopping malls once in a while. Tor also get along with a beauty named Silent Diva and Sarah, Lilith's butler as well.
Tor's school life used to be all-normal until one day Equipment Smith and K interrupts the normal school lives of the Koryo Academy students because they have the same goal that is, to build a strong force that conquers the world with their co-produced Units. Equipment Smith is revealed to have deep vengeance towards Sakuya's family for exceeding his research and Lilith's family for abandoned him to search for another career. When the academy held a summer trip at the island where located one of Koryo academy's branch school, they sent rebellious forces to attack the students and kidnapped Miyabi, who feels depressed because she is weak to help her friends and wish for greater power. Days later, the forces infiltrated the school compound led by K, Equipment Smith and followed by Miyabi, who is made their slave because of her wish. Tor and his friends united their power defeated K, Tomoe put Miyabi back to normal and all K's force units are defeated by all the academy's students. Due to K's defeat, Equipment Smith insulted K ,thus makes K killed the former. The same night, K continued attacking the school the second time all by himself but was later defeated again by Tor and Julie, thus apprehended. The remaining thing unknown is that the enemy, who killed Tor's sister and Julie's father is quietly moving behind the scenes.
Themes
- 「Believe×Believe」 by Nozomi Yamamoto
- 「Apple Tea no Aji」 (アップルティーの味; Taste of Apple Tea) by Nozomi Yamamoto and Haruka Yamazaki
- 「2/2」 by Ayaka Imamura and Ayaka Suwa
Key Staff
- Director - Atsushi Nakayama
- Series Composition - Takamitsu Kouno
- Music - Atsushi Hirasawa
- Original creator - Takumi Hiiragi-Boshi
- Original Character Design - Yū Asaba
- Character Design - Keiichi Sano
- Art Director - Kenta Masuda
- Animation Director - Keiichi Sano, Norie Tanaka
- Mechanical design - Takashi Kojima (Homurakiba)
- Sound Director - Takeshi Takadera
- Director of Photography - Kei Machida
- Color design - Yuko Tsumori
- Editing - Kashiko Kimura
- Theme Song Performance - Ayaka Imamura (ED#3), Ayaka Suwa (ED#3), Haruka Yamazaki (ED#2), Nozomi Yamamoto (ED#1-2)
- ADR Director - Caitlin Glass, Zach Bolton
- ADR Script - Sean Whitley
- Executive producer - Gen Fukunaga
- Producer - Carly Hunter, Justin Cook
- ADR Engineer - Cris George, Jose Sandoval, Patrick Morphy
- Assistant ADR Director - Cris George
Cast
- Tooru Kokonoe
- Japanese Voice: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
- English Voice: Ricco Fajardo
- Julie Sigtuna
- Japanese Voice: Nozomi Yamamoto
- English Voice: Bryn Apprill
- Tomoe Tachibana
- Japanese Voice: Ayaka Suwa
- English Voice: Whitney Rodgers
- Miyabi Hotaka
- Japanese Voice: Ayaka Imamura
- English Voice: Ashleigh Domangue
- Lilith Bristol
- Japanese Voice: Haruka Yamazaki
- English Voice: Caitlin Glass
- Imari Nagakura
- Japanese Voice: Haruka Tomatsu
- English Voice: Michelle Rojas
- Rito Tsukimi
- Japanese Voice: Yukari Tamura
- English Voice: Jennifer McDaniel
- Sakuya Tsukumo
- Japanese Voice: Yui Horie
- English Voice: Felecia Angelle
- Aoi Torasaki
- Japanese Voice: Natsuki Hanae
- English Voice: Anthony Bowling
- Ryuutarou Tatsuno
- Japanese Voice: Yoshihisa Kawahara
- English Voice: Tyson Rinehart